from flask import Flask, request from flask_restx import Resource, Api app = Flask(__name__) api = Api(app) todos = {} @api.route("/") class TodoSimple(Resource): """ You can try this example as follow: $ curl http://localhost:5000/todo1 -d "data=Remember the milk" -X PUT $ curl http://localhost:5000/todo1 {"todo1": "Remember the milk"} $ curl http://localhost:5000/todo2 -d "data=Change my breakpads" -X PUT $ curl http://localhost:5000/todo2 {"todo2": "Change my breakpads"} Or from python if you have requests : >>> from requests import put, get >>> put('http://localhost:5000/todo1', data={'data': 'Remember the milk'}).json {u'todo1': u'Remember the milk'} >>> get('http://localhost:5000/todo1').json {u'todo1': u'Remember the milk'} >>> put('http://localhost:5000/todo2', data={'data': 'Change my breakpads'}).json {u'todo2': u'Change my breakpads'} >>> get('http://localhost:5000/todo2').json {u'todo2': u'Change my breakpads'} """ def get(self, todo_id): return {todo_id: todos[todo_id]} def put(self, todo_id): todos[todo_id] = request.form["data"] return {todo_id: todos[todo_id]} if __name__ == "__main__": app.run(debug=False)